Page 2 University Daily Kansan Tuesday, Feb. 19, 1952 Daily Kansan Editorials Brotherhood Week Is Year-Round Campaign This is Brotherhood week.. For one seven-day period of the year we pause in our busy lives and publicly announce that we don't care what color, creed or race a man is. We say we are ready to greet him as our neighbor. All this is fine. The attitudes which are promoted by the movement are noble. Most persons will find themselves in complete agreement with the purposes expressed. The idea of being neighborly is an old American custom. But why do we have to have a special week to feel this way? Is it that we have so completely forgotten our American tradition that a big-time campaign is necessary? Have we become so concerned with reaping the benefits of the American tradition that we have forgotten to follow that tradition? During this week we will read of the closeness of all persons regardless of individual differences. We will read of the unity of purpose of the religious groups. Most of us will rejoice with the thought that it is good to live in a country where such is possible. His Light Makes Men Brothers But how much can the good work and words of this one week do toward counteracting the examples of bigotry which are present during the other 51 weeks of the year? Headline tell of an Iowa cemetery refusing to bury the body of a soldier killed fighting in Korea because he was of Indian ancestry. Just last week the residents of an all-white neighborhood in California voted seven to one against admitting a Chinese family. The residents of a suburb near a large Eastern city protested the construction of a church because it was not one of the "accepted" denominations. It may sound futile to tak about brotherhood when half the world is trying to deny the meaning of the word. On the other hand, this is precisely the best time to make sure we understand fully what it implies. Unless brotherhood is practiced at all times here there is little reason to believe we can sell it abroad. If we can't sell it abroad we cannot hope to end the dangerous ideological struggle in which we now are engaged. We must take the message from this one week of demonstrated brotherhood and keep it before us as a guide for all the other weeks throughout the year. —Joe Taylor. short ones The Defense department has issued a draft call for dentists, and no doubt they will be the best drilling bunch of recruits the Army has ever had. Understatement of the week: After Mrs. Roberto (Ingrid Bergman) Rossellini announced her second child will be born in June, her husband said he hoped this would convince people of the seriousness of their marriage. Looks like the guys whooping it up for a gas strike finally ran out of gas. Justice was found wanting when an Elizabeth in England became queen while an Elizabeth in New Jersey got hit by three airplanes. What ever happened to Captain Kurt Carlsen? Maybe he's taking a vacation with General MacArthur on a flying saucer. News Room Student Newspaper of the Ad Room KU 251 UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS KU 376 Member of the Kansas Press Assn, National Editorial Assn, Inland Daily Press Assn, Associated Press, National Information Association, and by the National Advertising Service, 420 North Avenue, New York City. EDITORIAL STAFF EDITORIAL STAFF Editor-in-Chief...Jack Zimmerman Editorial Assistants...Anne Zimmer, Joe Taylor NEWS STAFF Managing Editor Ellsworth Zahm Assistant Managing Editors Helen Law Fay, Ben Halman, Joe Lostelic, Jim Powers City Editor Jeannie Lambert Assistant City Editors Jeanne Fitzgerald, Phil Newman Telegraph Editor Jerry Renner, Katrina Swartz Assistant Telegraph Editor Charles Burch Society Editor Max Thompson Society Editor Dianne Stonebraker Assistant Society Editors Lorena Barlow, Pauline Patterson Sports Editor Jackie Jones News Advisor Victor J. 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Briefly, the plan proposes that seven nations—Great Britain, France, Western Germany, Belgium, Luxembourg, The Netherlands and Italy—form a continental economic community. A national assembly would be set up to control the international authority that would run the cold-steel pool. This assembly then would be a springboard to organize a federated Europe. French Foreign minister Robert Schuman, author of the plan, says that the pool would not be a cartel, an international business organization, because it would expand, rather than restrict production of steel and coal, and give Europeans more goods at lower prices and raise their standard of living. Perhaps the most important effect of the proposal would be to unite two nations, France and Western Germany, which for centuries have been involved in bloody competition. With their unification a major source of trouble in Europe could be eliminated —Max A. Thompson. The early spring weather must be turning some of our young men's thoughts prematurely (if not lightly) to love. In case Tennyson was right, sympathize with the faculty. Yesterday a physics professor stood on his head and not a student blinked. Letters: Foreign Language Helps Students Dear Sir: Each semester begins with a healthy swipe taken at the foreign language requirement. You said in an editorial on Feb. 14: "The average student is hard to sell on the value of courses not directly related to his major field." The key word here is "average". It is hard to sell the average student on any course that will involve any more than a minimum of effort . . . ... Look at some of the so-called themes that are handed into the English department . . . (and) . . at the number of students who flunk the English proficiency examination. The beauty of a foreign language is that the student can't . . . (pass) . . the course without knowing a verb from a noun. William L. K. Schwarz College senior. ... The only way to spare the poor, overworked student is either to conquer the peoples of the world and make them speak English, or perhaps let the Russians beat us and we will all have the privilege of learning Russian. You also say the best way to understand a foreign country is to study its history, politics and economics. This is true, but before anyone can . . . (understand) . . . any of these problems the language of the nation involved is necessary . . . Comments .. Gives Sportsmanship Lesson The Tennessee Tech Oracle decided recently to give its readers a lesson in sportsmanship. It declared in an editorial: "...We would like to mention an incident that reportedly occurred at the Tech-Evansville basketball game. Of course, Evansville is a northern team—a team that is due just as much respect and honor as any other team whether from the North, South, East or West. "we wonder how the Evansville coach must have felt when someone told him, 'Why don't you sit down—you yankee.' It is perfectly all right to boo the official when you feel like it—and who doesn't on one occasion or another—but it is certainly a most asinine thing to make any degrading remarks to an individual." Winchell Becomes Target Of Verbal Blasts Along about the middle of January the New York Post took its editorial tool box and happily began to nail columnist Walter Winchell's hide to the barn door of its news columns. The Post ran a front page banner for a special series, called "Inside Winchell." The Post serial charged: 1. That an obscure young man in Bayside N.Y., is Winchell's chief ghost writer; that Winchell's attorney influenced his opinions; that press agents covet his favor and fear his wrath; and that he badgers loyalty from friends. 3. The "baddies" (underworld characters) have staked their newsboy pal to some pretty good beats. During the Kefauver hearings, Winchell ran a column of anecdotes in which he remembered "all sorts of things about Frank Costello—all nice," and followed it up with an exclusive interview picturing him "as an authority on how to stamp out crime." 2. That "... he is handicapped only by misinformation, lack of knowledge, capricious judgment, and a cultivated aversion for the reading of books." The Post also found enough errors in Winchell's column to run a daily box of Winchell "Wrongos" and his carefully disguised corrections. Example—"Irving Berlin, the poor songwriter, netted only $650,000 (after taxes) in 1946." Two days later came the veiled retraction—"Irving Berlin says the report that he made $650,000 (after taxes) The real reason seems to be that the Post is extremely race conscious, and was after Winchell because he had been critical of Negro Josephine Baker for her claim that racial discrimination had resulted in poor service for her at Winchell's favorite handout, the Stork club. Time reported on Feb. 4 that Winchell was ordered by his doctors to take a complete rest for a month and that the Post had promptly postponed the last six installments of its Winchell articles. The reason for the Post series? Newsweek says "the Post has made a specialty of exposing columnists whose views are to the right of the Post's." Publisher of the Post, Dorothy Schiff, said, "maybe this series . . . will bring him to his senses, and he will cease his evil, vindicative campaigns against individuals who have displeased him." The reason given by the Post for the postpone- ment: is bunk." Maybe the answer to the whole affair lies in a page one reference to Winchell's column, which was run in Winchell's home paper, the New York Mirror. The headline gave a page reference to Walter's regular column (which didn't even mention the Post blast) and said: "We believe in the old journalistic principle that a newspaper should not argue with a man while he isn't in a position to answer back." "There's Only One Walter Winchell."